Laurinburg, North Carolina

Laurinburg population, 2020 to 2024

Laurinburg added 30 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +74. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 129th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Laurinburg is 1.0 times that size.

Laurinburg covers 12.55 square miles of land and 0.16 of water, for 1,206 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Laurinburg is close to the typical town.

What county Laurinburg is in

All of Laurinburg's residents live in Scotland County, which had 33,898 residents in 2024. Laurinburg holds 44.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Laurinburg

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Laurinburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28352. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Laurinburg is

The Census internal point of Laurinburg is at 34.762100, -79.477400. Raleigh, the capital, is 84.8 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lumberton, NC (18,882 people), 27.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fayetteville, NC, 36.2 miles away.

Daylight in Laurinburg

At 34.76° N, Laurinburg gets about 14 h 30 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 49 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Laurinburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Maxton, 7.3 miles away, with 2,136 people.